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It is hard to believe that the summer is nearing its halfway point! The MTA building is bereft of its students, so it was time to start visiting the MTA talmidim where many are spending their summers. Visits began last week with a trip to Camp Kaylie and Camp HASC. The MTA talmidim and recent graduates were enjoying Color War at Kaylie, some as campers, and others as staff, while the MTA alumni at HASC were hard at work caring for their special campers. Each talmid was given a Summer Swag T-shirt and doughnuts.

The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 2,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in American public policy, last week called for Columbia President Minouche Shafik to resign or be fired by the Board of Trustees. This comes after Shafik announced that three of the four faculty who spent a session about anti-Jewish hate exchanging text messages ridiculing the speakers and sharing anti-Semitic tropes were removed from their positions – but retained on Columbia’s payroll – while the fourth, Josef Sorett, is slated to remain as Dean.

HaKadosh Baruch Hu

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Congresswoman urges money
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US Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens), a co-chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism, criticized the slashing of funds provided to the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), a key government agency that fights discrimination and investigates anti-Semitism on college campuses.

Chevrah Hatzalah and the NYPD battled it out at the annual softball game last Tuesday, played once again on Surf Avenue at Maimonides Park in Coney Island in front of a sizable contingent of the Jewish community. Hatzalah proudly took the 11-2 win at the free night out for the community. Both teams wore jerseys with an embroidered patch paying tribute to the late retired NYPD Chief Chuck Scholl, who died two years ago following 41 years of committed service at the Department. Additionally, 1,800 children went home with a monogrammed baseball cap and sunglasses as a token souvenir.

Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky was an instrumental figure in Chabad’s global expansion, who was easily able to connect with others. He encountered thousands of people in his decades of travel on behalf of Chabad-Lubavitch, serving alternatively as rabbi, fundraiser, and friend. The rabbi was the keynote speaker at last year’s Queens Kinus HaShluchim.